Most black students today do not go to HBCUs. That's why many of them have shut down.

>basically the gist of it is...segregated
>schools of ANY measure (all
>white/all black/all latino) can never
>benefit ANYBODY.

Can never benefit? Oh, segregated schools have benefits that integrated schools generally don't. Being culturally affirmed is one of them. That's not really there in "integrated" schools, and that's an issue with students, teachers, and the administration. As a product of "integrated" schooling, I wish I had gone to an all black school in my formative years. Black History isn't that one day in February where your teacher talks about Martin Luther King and maybe Attucks and feels like she's accomplished something.

> Blacks that want
>to stay segregated and inferior
>feed right into the hands
>of right wing conservatives..socially and
>economically...
>not knocking HBCU's...but i know many
>a black student that would
>never attend one...and I think
>if you went to a
>lot of the innercity elementary
>schools in detroit you could
>see why (they are 95%
>black)....the almighty dollar. (now i'm
>speaking on historically segregated schools,
>as I have never been
>to a HBCU campus)...Segregated Public
>Schools lack in books/teachers/classrooms/supplies/technology...not to
>mention the lack of diversity....I
>think we all benefit from
>learning about others cultures and
>differences...tolerance per se.

Segregated public schools are segregated by districting. If you have no money, you can't move out of a poorer district into a richer one. You may not WANT to move from a black one to a white one because of intolerance. Integrated schools do not necessarily support tolerance, believe me. Mostly, what I've learned before college in school is an overload of information about white people, historically and culturally.

>I'd rather spend my time fighting
>for social and racial equality
>in ALL sectors of lower
>and higher education....blacks should not
>have to say "we'll need
>um"...blacks should have the equal
>opportunity to attend ANY damn
>school they want to...and if
>you choose a HBCU for
>whatever reasons you deem worthy...that
>should be YOUR choice....not what
>your forced to do because
>of fucked up social/societal system

As I said, most black students don't go to HBCUs. And I think a lot of people choose to go there for the affirmation that they can get. Plus, an education which is not necessarily inferior to those offered by "integrated" institutions, and I would argue that in some cases, maybe many, it is superior.




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